Full Version: Corn, corn, corn.....
Randi's corn references about the right wingnutz were funny.
What was that line? Something about "Nature's little scrubbers?"
Yeah, corn goes through your colon like a freight train.... kinda like country music. Ha!
Yeah, corn goes through your colon like a freight train.... kinda like country music. Ha!
Why can't we get an automobile to run on corn whiskey. At least we would look forward to breaking down on the road.
QUOTE (RandiLover @ Jul 7 2008, 01:41 PM) 
Why can't we get an automobile to run on corn whiskey. At least we would look forward to breaking down on the road.
Now THERE's a thought!
Truly you are a Liberal! All Johnnie-on-the-spot with the good ideas...!
No corn whiskey...It would have to be hemp oil. Hemp grows just about anywhere and in all conditions. I heard somewhere, that it would only take about 6% of America's farm land to satisfy our fuel needs. As a kicker the auto industry could be revitalized by building efficient vehicles to run on the hemp oil. A twofer....
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http://www.hemphasis.net/Fuel-Energy/fuel.htm
Hemp as a Fuel / Energy Source
By Jeremy Briggs
Biodiesel fuel from Hemp Seed Oil
Hemp seed oil can be used as is in bio-diesel engines. Methyl esters, or bio-diesel, can be made from any oil or fat including hemp seed oil. The reaction requires the oil, an alcohol (usually methanol), and a catalyst, which produces bio-diesel and small amount of glycerol or glycerin. When co-fired with 15% methanol, bio-diesel fuel produces energy less than 1/3 as pollution as petroleum diesel.
Energy and Fuel from Hemp Stalks through Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is the technique of applying high heat to biomass, or organic plants and tree matter, with little or no air. Reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants and automobiles can be accomplished by converting biomass to fuel utilizing pyrolysis technology. The process can produce, from lingo-cellulosic material (like the stalks of hemp), charcoal, gasoline, ethanol, non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone, methane, and methanol. Process adjustments can be done to favor charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas, or methanol, with 95.5% fuel-to-feed ratios. Around 68% of the energy of the raw biomass will be contained in the charcoal and fuel oils -- renewable energy generated here at home, instead of overpaying for foreign petroleum....
....Hemp produces the most biomass of any crop, which is why it is the natural choice for an energy crop. Hemp converts the sun's energy into cellulose faster than any other plant, through photosynthesis. Hemp can produce 10 tons of biomass per acre every four months. Enough energy could be produced on 6% of the land in the U.S. to provide enough energy for our entire country (cars, heat homes, electricity, industry) -- and we use 25% of the world's energy.
To put which in perspective, right now we pay farmers not to grow on 6% (around 90 million acres) of the farming land, while another 500 million acres of marginal farmland lies fallow. This land could be used to grow hemp as an energy crop....
Hemp as a Fuel / Energy Source
By Jeremy Briggs
Biodiesel fuel from Hemp Seed Oil
Hemp seed oil can be used as is in bio-diesel engines. Methyl esters, or bio-diesel, can be made from any oil or fat including hemp seed oil. The reaction requires the oil, an alcohol (usually methanol), and a catalyst, which produces bio-diesel and small amount of glycerol or glycerin. When co-fired with 15% methanol, bio-diesel fuel produces energy less than 1/3 as pollution as petroleum diesel.
Energy and Fuel from Hemp Stalks through Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is the technique of applying high heat to biomass, or organic plants and tree matter, with little or no air. Reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants and automobiles can be accomplished by converting biomass to fuel utilizing pyrolysis technology. The process can produce, from lingo-cellulosic material (like the stalks of hemp), charcoal, gasoline, ethanol, non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone, methane, and methanol. Process adjustments can be done to favor charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas, or methanol, with 95.5% fuel-to-feed ratios. Around 68% of the energy of the raw biomass will be contained in the charcoal and fuel oils -- renewable energy generated here at home, instead of overpaying for foreign petroleum....
....Hemp produces the most biomass of any crop, which is why it is the natural choice for an energy crop. Hemp converts the sun's energy into cellulose faster than any other plant, through photosynthesis. Hemp can produce 10 tons of biomass per acre every four months. Enough energy could be produced on 6% of the land in the U.S. to provide enough energy for our entire country (cars, heat homes, electricity, industry) -- and we use 25% of the world's energy.
To put which in perspective, right now we pay farmers not to grow on 6% (around 90 million acres) of the farming land, while another 500 million acres of marginal farmland lies fallow. This land could be used to grow hemp as an energy crop....
QUOTE (kernaljessup @ Jul 7 2008, 03:58 PM)
No corn whiskey...It would have to be hemp oil. Hemp grows just about anywhere and in all conditions. I heard somewhere, that it would only take about 6% of America's farm land to satisfy our fuel needs. As a kicker the auto industry could be revitalized by building efficient vehicles to run on the hemp oil. A twofer....
RIGHT ON, KERNALJESSUP!
Hemp can be harvested every 7 weeks, in a good climate like Arizona, Texas, Caifornia,etc. that's almost all year round, now that's a solution, and it's been done before, in the 40's. They just don't to do it, because they love OIL.
QUOTE (TapDuncan @ Jul 9 2008, 03:56 PM)
Hemp can be harvested every 7 weeks, in a good climate like Arizona, Texas, Caifornia,etc. that's almost all year round, now that's a solution, and it's been done before, in the 40's. They just don't to do it, because they love OIL.
Oil and Petrol-Chemicals.
XRS-- I will look for the article I read, and it was in a farmers magazine from 2000 or so, I know I had it but I threw it out, I'll check the net. It's called Progressive Farmer, if I remember. I'll look around. It was an awesome piece though.
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